README
Jetson Leder-Luis
April, 2023
"Can Whistleblowers Root Out Public Expenditure Fraud? Evidence from Medicare"
Review of Economics and Statistics

April, 2023

The code in these files produce:

- The scraped DOJ archive and press release coding (DOJScraper)
- The 4 main case studies, as well as robustness checks for each case study
- Combined graphs of the case studies (multipanel)
- The health effects appendix (Kyphohealth)
- Stylized facts from the DOJ FOIA data


Each piece of the project has a different README file associated with it. 

Medicare data were accessed through the NBER via DUA-52260. Code provided for the case studies will run on the NBER aging servers. Researchers who are interested in accessing this data can apply through the NBER or acquire the data directly from ResDAC.

The Medicare data used in this study have hundreds of fields. ResDAC provides data dictionaries for each file. 